Werdet

First edition for Séraphita and third version of Louis Lambert.
Reliures in half morocco, covers and spine preserved, bindings signed by Champs.
A nice copy, rare and sought-after.

Rare and highly sought-after first edition (...) of which only a portion of the copies contains a preface (cf. Clouzot). The important account of the lawsuit concerning The Lily of the Valley that precedes the novel was not retained in subsequent editions and is often lacking in a number of the copies published by Werdet.

Copy complete with both the preface and the account of the lawsuit that opposed Balzac to the publisher François Buloz. Contemporary half green sheepskin bindings, smooth spines decorated with gilt romantic typographical motifs, gilt fillets at heads and tails, marbled paper boards, paste paper endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, con

First edition, rare and very sought-after according to Clouzot.
Contemporary half spotted sheep over marbled paper boards, later dark-green title-pieces.
Occasional rare spotting, significant dampstain to inner margin of one volume, covers slightly scuffed, a close-cropped copy.
Provenance: from the library at the Château du Lac Tegern (Tegernsee), which belonged to Prince Charles-Theodore of Bavaria (1795-1875). Charles-Theodore of Bavaria, the son of the first King of Bavaria, Maximilian I, was "Generalfeldmarschall" and personal councilor to the King of Bavaria (stamp: "S.K.H.D Prinzen Carl V. Bayern Güter Administration Tegernsee").
A rare copy with a princely proven